ANavS
About
About ANavS
ANavS was founded in 2011 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich and remains headquartered in Munich, with an additional office near Innsbruck. The engineering company combines patented RTK and PPP positioning methods with inertial sensing, odometry, UWB and vision or LiDAR-based SLAM. Products package those algorithms with embedded hardware for field deployment.
The company is tracked as a localisation component and infrastructure provider rather than a vehicle builder. Its systems can provide centimetre-level position, attitude and ground-truth data for robots, autonomous road vehicles, rail equipment, drones and agricultural machines, including transitions between GNSS-rich and indoor or obstructed environments. Accuracy depends on configuration, sensors, corrections and operating conditions; Korthos therefore avoids presenting one headline figure as universal across every product and deployment.
Operations
Orders & commitments
- Order / commitment
2026-02-04 - ANavS disclosed a November 2025 Anduril contract above €1 million for high-volume delivery within four months; unit count and completed delivery are not disclosed. - named customer contract
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Septentrio
Inbound - Navigation - ANavS integrates Septentrio mosaic-X5 modules into navigation systems for autonomous vehicles, drones and robots
Source - Anduril Industries
Outbound - Localization Navigation - Anduril contracted ANavS positioning and sensor-fusion systems for its autonomous platforms in November 2025
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Team
- Patrick Henkel - Founder and Managing Director - Founder, current managing director and primary technical research leader.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-02-04 - Commercial Order - Anduril places €1m-plus production order with ANavS
The delivery window was four months, moving the engagement beyond prototyping into a compressed production schedule. ANavS framed the award as a production-scale milestone in an existing collaboration with the defense-technology customer.
Source - 2025-10-09 - Demonstration - ANavS completes ESA-backed MAPP maritime navigation project
Two field campaigns covered different ports and vessels, testing the combined positioning stack under operational conditions. ANavS contributed GNSS-PPP/IMU filtering, LiDAR SLAM, cross-sensor localisation fusion and an integrity concept for position and attitude. The final review took place at ESA ESTEC after the project concluded in July 2025.
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Relations
Relationships
- Anduril Industries
Defense Technology Customer - Anduril ordered more than €1 million of ANavS navigation systems in November 2025 for delivery within four months.
Context
Comparable profiles
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stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier · Inertial GNSS Sensor Fusion
- CHC Navigation
stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier
- Fixposition
stack adjacency - GNSS Ins
- Inertial Sense
stack adjacency - GNSS Ins
- iMAR Navigation
stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier
- Locus Lock
stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier
- Systork
stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier
- Septentrio
stack adjacency - GNSS Ins
- Swift Navigation
stack adjacency - GNSS Ins
- SBG Systems
stack adjacency - GNSS Ins
- MGB-TECH
stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier
- Inertial Labs
stack adjacency - GNSS Localization Supplier · Inertial GNSS Sensor Fusion
Context tags
- Inertial GNSS sensor fusion - Capability - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.
- GNSS localization supplier - Stack Layer - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.
- GNSS/INS - Stack Layer - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.
Commercial
- Anduril places €1m-plus production order with ANavS
2026-02-04 · Order / contract · ANavS disclosed that Anduril contracted it in November 2025 for a high-volume navigation-system delivery valued above €1 million.
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